Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My first contribution to this debate on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Access Regime and NBN Companies) Bill 2015 is to offer an open invitation for the minister sitting at the table to visit my electorate. I will arrange a public meeting and invite the more than 100 people whose names I have here to come along and talk to the minister. Minister, what I have to say to you is that your NBN has caused absolute chaos in my electorate, as recently as last night. I might add that I have been receiving emails from constituents on a very, very regular basis in relation to this legislation. I think the backflip that the minister has taken in removing the amendments that are before the House today is quite humiliating. But I think it is better for there to be a backflip than for the minister to push ahead with the rollout of a NBN that is absolutely not working. I must share with the House one of the emails I recently received. It was from one of my constituents writing on behalf of his elderly parents, who live in a retirement village. What he wrote to me was that the retirement village—

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